Sammy Hagar & the Aliens vs. Hugo Chavez & the Martians

It's been quite a week, and it's only Tuesday.

Sunday was Alien Abduction Day. And there you sat with nothing about it on your iPhone calendar. Rocker Sammy Hagar marked the auspicatory occasion by telling MTV that he was abducted by space aliens 20 years ago.

From the UFO Digest website:

“I saw a ship and two creatures inside of this ship… And they were connected to me, tapped into my mind through some kind of mysterious wireless connection,” explains Sammy Hagar in his new book, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. The brief memoir, whose release coincides with "Alien Abduction Day", is not the first instance in which the former Van Halen singer has offered public disclosures of ET contact. A new report from a Vancouver audio lab suggests that Sammy Hagar was covertly communicating about alien abduction as early as 1991. A secret message encrypted backwards in Mr. Hagar's 20-year-old remarks stating how “Aliens abducted me,” is the subject of a new Secret Message Report – Podcast Edition episode, produced in Vancouver by Vancouver UFO Examiner, Jon Kelly.

Next up: Today is World Water Day—Who knew? To celebrate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez muses that capitalism destroyed a once-great civilization. On Mars.

From Reuters:

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

That's just silly. Everybody knows it was really a tragic Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator accidental detonation.

(Poster from the 2008 Alien Abduction Festival, sponsored by HappyWorker.com)